skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"large multinational hosting provider" - I'd never heard of them until this post.

Going under isn't the only concern. A free service which most certainly costs them (bandwidth, power, rackspace, IPs). Even if they're small devices, they add up. And an offering that is losing money will get bumped for an offering that is earning money.

I'm mainly just predicting the future HN post. Panda tears will flow. Just think back to Joyent cutting out the old TextDrive lifetime hosting. People more than likely got their money's worth out of it, but still a large amount of drama.
That doesn't sound right. I bought a mobile phone on eBay and the seller sent me a unit that was (a) a different model and (b) clearly used. I jumped through all kinds of hoops, culminating in a letter from my lawyer certifying I received a different phone. The end result was, I could not return or exchange the unit, and my negative feedback and rating were erased. Stories like mine are legion. eBay emphatically does not favor buyers, they screw everyone equally.
"forced with no alternative if you want to use IE"

Again, Windows RT is expected to ship with the desktop version of IE 10. This means that for most practical use cases, any Flash website can be browsed by any version of Windows 8 - except phone which currently doesn't support Flash at all.

Microsoft didn't come up with the walled garden. They didn't lead the industry in the rush to vilify Flash. And they certainly aren't at the forefront of collecting and selling user data to advertisers and marketers.
"There's an app for that" is not a mobile strategy
Lean Startup Is Great UX Packaging
it never was so simple, thx guys!!!!
> Why not just make Flash click to enable?

"Developers with sites that need plug-ins can use an HTTP header or META tag to signal Internet Explorer 10 to prompt the user to switch to Internet Explorer for the desktop."
The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment
What to Do When Website Traffic Hits a Wall
Like the UI. Not sure if its legal.
As it uses virtual currency in the game the ability to win as a disconnected outcome is a bit of a grey area, but should be fine if done correctly in that betting is not illegal in itself, it is the processing of payments of US$ on wagers that is illegal.

There will be more and more of these games as companies who don't wish to get effectively blacklisted from publishing and marketing in the US once real money gambling apps become legal position themselves for market share of the faux betting space so then can switch it up when/if the legalities are changed.
How much time is wasted on accounts receivable every month? What's the average fully-loaded cost of their employees tasked with AR? What's the percentage of uncollected invoices?

What happens if we cut the time wasted by 10% and bring in one or two extra invoices a month? Oh, we just made you several hundred thousand dollars in the first year? Interesting. What is that worth to you?

"I'll write up a document explaining the plan, but in broad strokes, we're going to work on the user experience so the team spends less time fighting this tool and more time being effective in chasing receivables. Also, we'll build a new workflow which automates the early stage of receivables collection." (I would start thinking "Automated emails or Twilio replacing a human employee doing either is pure win in the early stages of collection" but you're the guy in the client's office, figure out what they'll except.)
By default MVC 4 will return JSON so you don't need to specify the content-type unless you want something that isn't JSON.
The Megahertz-myth was a result of people being conditioned to see the clockspeed as an absolute measure of performance.

It's more a symptom of people looking for one absolute measure of performance, because it's simply easier (less computationally expensive for the human brain) than dealing with a multi-variable valuation problem. IQ is another example, it's easier to deal with just that number instead of considering the whole person. Engine displacement (ie. 2.2L engine) is another - there's a range of variables such as max torque and max horsepower, and which engine speed maximizes those, etc.
Oh fuck, I need to follow instructions to downgrade? FFS. Nah, I don't care enough to downgrade.
Given that Postgres runs on a whole bunch of different platforms and since each platform does scheduling differently, I imagine that doing it yourself is very practical since it gives you consistent and optimized behavior irregardless of the OS.
Love it this is simple!
Because nefarious sellers and buyers would have unlimited license to prevent negative feedback from being posted to their account, ever. They would always appear to be a new seller/buyer.
We'd have exactly the same problem even if there was no government to co-opt at all, though. In particular the Libertarian market-based approach has exactly the same problem. If businesses can convince newspapers to smear politicians who're inconvenient to them, there's nothing stopping them doing the same to researchers who've discovered their drug is killing people, or doctors who've noticed their factory workers are being slowly poisoned, or anyone else who tries to give consumers the information required to make sound decisions.
I don't think so. PostgreSQL has a fast implementation of its dispatcher that works well. The kernel change introduces a regression in the performance of PostgreSQL and potentially other programs doing the same style of locking. The kernel people are not suggesting that PostgreSQL use a different implementation; they do not want to break working code, and are treating this code change as a regression that needs to be fixed in the kernel. In the comments, the article author writes:

FWIW, the discussion in kernelland was based on the assumption that this regression was the kernel's problem. Nobody there suggested telling the PostgreSQL developers to come up with a new locking scheme.
Similar service is offered by a Polish bank Alior Sync: http://static.sync.pl/attachment/jak_zlecic_przelew_na_fb.pd...

When it comes to banking, I prefer to stay away from the cutting edge.
Which one?

This one: https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit

or this one: https://github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit

I've been using and configuring emacs for a few weeks now. Is it worth starting again with one of these or will it move too much cheese?
Kind of simplistic. I much prefer http://www.dz863.com/index.php
Twitter Zaps Fake Followers
I disagree with this rationale. Americans have distinct tastes from Europeans, notably they like things sweeter. Chobani and a few of the other greek yoghurts taste more like regular yoghurt than Fage, which tastes to me more like what I'd expect in a Mediterranean restaurant.

In addition, Fage is a bit pricier. Not many people are going to pay that premium for yoghurt.
LG Nexus handset revealed
smart move!
You realize that capitalism can't function when people keep stealing capital, right?
Poor Firefox. They do the right thing, and end up with a #1 Most Read on BBC News telling people that "Security fear sees Firefox pulled"
> Take the text away that usually specifies an action (like 'download', 'submit', 'buy now') and all you have is a rectangular coloured box.

I guess that is the part of the point, to have actionable text which describes what happens if you press the button.
"I'll follow your standard procedures for expensing business travel." (Hat tip for Thomas -- this line has totally resolved every discussion I've ever had about this issue.) nYour more desirable clients do this all the time. At many places it is budgeted out of an entirely different pot of money than your salary.
Some of you guys seem to think that at the speed of light travel would be instantaneous, wouldn't light hitting your eye facing forwards be going at c*2 in relation to yourself, and light looking behind at you travel at 0 in relation to yourself.

Onlookers at your destination would not see you until you arrived but ones from your departure would see you leave and you would be invisible to another craft going at the same speed as you.
Dyson Sphere Hunt Using Kepler Data
I guess you didn't go through their financials. You do realize they can cut expenses like R&D, SGA, etc, and probably not affect their revenues immediately. To me, they are like YHOO, where they have a bunch of people using the products through sheer inertia. YHOO in the past few years has been doing exactly that, which is cut costs relative to their revenues, and shown a decent profit, without affecting their income drastically.

ZNGA could do the same thing. They could cut R&D by 1/3, SG&A by 2/3, and even cut down on things like customer support, etc, and their current earnings for at least a few quarters wouldn't be affected immediately. They still need to create new games to entice those same users
From the parent level comment: The book value doesn't take into account an expected write off of $90m, which would drop the price per share to lower than the share price
For similar reasons to why DB engines often implement their own caching and disable OS disk caching; a combination of more information about what needs to be done, and a very competitive marketplace.
I would indeed be surprised if they had written "Any commercial competing products to anything in our app-store will also be rejected". It would just surprise me more that removing a large portion of the competition did not add into the decision.
That argument doesn't make sense. My outlet for creativity is the content of my code not when new lines happen or how I indent. On the other hand, if everything in the codebase is formatted uniformly it's a lot easier to scan through and you don't end up with diffs filled with reformatting kruft as each team member walks over the others' formatting style.

If you're feeling extra creative, you could always change your font, font size, and syntax highlighting scheme. ;)
XMPP, BOSH, SockJS and latency
Using the logos of the sports organisations is probably infringing copyright.

Whether or not the gambling bit is legal would depend on where the company is based, but then again it's Zynga's love child, you wouldn't expect everything to be above board would you?
>I'm starting to really tire of this trend where developers lock away even power user settings (like the ability to decide what fucking plugins run in your browser) in the name of "security".

That train has already left the station, with iOS and Apple unable to keep iDevices in stock.
Type Analysis for Javascript
And a depressing one, at that!
I don't see the value in a "100% replacement for all books" for the same reason I don't see any value in "100% replacement for all cooking utensils" or most other things. I can do a lot of things with my favorite knife, but that doesn't mean it would be better with a can opener attached to it.

Obviously longer battery life would be fine, but I wouldn't trade any size or weight for it. A color screen would be fine but I wouldn't trade any contrast or battery life or additional expense for it. A stronger case would be fine but I wouldn't trade cost or weight for it, and so on. It's a great device for reading novels, papers, long blog posts that I send to it. My ipad is a great device for movies and magazines. My computer is a great device for doing research and copy/pasting code snippets and playing games. My radio is a great device for listening to music or news in the car. My TV is a great device for watching movies and shows.

That's a mere 6 devices that pretty well cover my information and media needs. Not too bad considering I use at least twice as many different tools to make dinner.
I also run with flash disabled, which helps me not see flash ads (I don't mind non-flash ads). And there's very little actual content that I miss.

Another benefit, that practice immediately reveals the odd flash-only site, showing me a big empty box. I usually bail immediately on those, because there's usually no good reason to do that, so I assume there's a bad reason.

That said, I would rather be the one deciding whether to watch flash or not.
Geology of Britain Viewer
Me too. Was just emailed by a client complaining that their Twitter feed had gone down. I was using the JSON API too but needed to change from http://twitter.com/... to http://api.twitter.com/1/...
Oh, okay! I must have missed that part. Thanks! :)
Dirty Disks, Data Dilemmas: Keeping Clouds Secure
They knew the risks and they aren't slaves. If they really thought it was a bad deal, they can find a job at another company.

Everyone I know that worked at a startup has ended up out of a job with little to no payout (beyond their salary). It's a risk.

If you don't want to take that risk, work at a non-startup company.
This is really the first version of the editor and we are working on several more features. But a big design goal for us is actually to make it as simple as possible to design electronics. We believe that a lot more people could be designing electronics if the tools were simpler and if you could easily build on existing electronics modules, just like what happens when building software. This is at the heart of circuits.io
Real-Time Geolocation Service with Node.js
My Nexus tablet has a bad flicker on the screen, and I've been living with it b/c Google offers no support.

Edit: By "no support," I mean "little support for the backing brand and seller of the device"
Heck, don't even consider monopoly. More practically, how could they ever keep up? Whitelisting the internet for other people is impossible to keep up with.
CourseTalk: Reviews for Udacity, Coursera, and edX
UK to review social media laws
Like Brennan, I live in a VERY slow-tech, more-than-slightly rural area. That isn't my pricing anchor, though.

Suffice it to say that I was charging a rate many American engineers my age would have been (too) happy to take when I started out, and my most recent rate is 7.5X that, and in a few months I'll be putting 10X on proposals and winning a similar percentage of them.

Lawyers who made their last client millions attributable to a two week engagement probably do better than me, but the typical lawyer working for my clients didn't do that recently, so without knowing anything about their rate card I'm going to assume it's below mine.

We're really not just blowing smoke here.
I much prefer Chrome's approach to locking down Flash- put it in a (much more) secure sandbox.

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-even-more-secure-flash...

Microsoft could have taken the approach of running Flash in it's own Win8 app container, but apparently wanted to put as little effort into it as possible.
All you did was take Bootstrap's built-in buttons and remove the gradients and rounded corners. That's not a modern design, it's just plain and boring.
It's the New Yorker; of course it's biased. They're openly, historically left-leaning.

That doesn't preclude it from being a great read.
As plane-Jane as can be sounds absolutely great for text piping etc.
It seems like they had their "Facebook branch" open for ten months now. I wonder if they had any security issues.

Either way, it's cool seeing kids withdraw cash from ATMs by typing in their SMS PIN numbers. Kind of makes you feel young, and old.
They are based in Delhi.
Couldn't agree more with you, (ready for the plug?) this is actually why I created http://coursebacon.com/ - to help me keep track of all the amazing learning resources that gets posted across the web.
South Africa's FNB also lets you send money to others and buy cellular airtime, SMS and data bundles via Facebook, so this bank's claim to being the first seems doubtful.

As an aside, FNB was recently given the Most Innovative Bank of 2012 award at the BAI-Finacle Global Banking Innovation Awards in DC. It's pay-off for a big investment they've made over the past few years to adopt new technology and mediums for banking. [0]

A friend and former colleague works there, so I'm pleased to see them doing well.

[0]https://www.fnb.co.za/news/archive/2012/20121010FNBsDNA.html
"BANANA BUCKS", their virtual currency.
A straight talking Prime Minister who is not trying to talk his way out of blame. Awesome.
The story of Nokia MeeGo
Replycafe.com
That sounds like an issue with Asus build quality. They offer customer support. Have you contacted them?
I'm very surprised by the hack that reduces the area of possibles for a process to two CPUs. This will cause other problems when 32+ cores computers get more common.

I'm even more surprised by "some benchmarks show it's faster, let's merge it".

Maybe they could try something larger than subsets of 2 CPUs?
Better than a wave of defecation...
If you want to talk about problems, let's talk about plugins themselves. They're horrible and should never have been created. Hell, even they were a response to horrible websites which browsers had to deal with. Anything short of proper browser development would of course necessitate having plugins for your browser.
Google has been testing a 'hosted' version of mod_pagespeed over the last few months. It's currently invite only but what you do is you add a CNAME record to your domain and point it to google's caching servers.

So then what happens is that Google does a fetch from your server, and optimizes the response using mod_pagespeed techniques (including throwing your static assets onto their CDN and other funky stuff..).

Basically, all your CSS/JS/page-content/images get fetched through google's CDNs but this functionality relies on one critical part of the framework functioning really well - Google's connection to your origin server.

This is where it's at: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service

Also, yeah my site is for the world at large and that's why this is an issue. I can definitely see how it's useful for personal websites and small projects.
Just to put these numbers into perspective, something the infographic fails to do even though it slaps on the label "Big Money", Americans spend 15x more on pet food than both political candidates and parties combined spend on political speech.

http://www.petfoodinstitute.org/Index.cfm?Page=USPetFoodSale...
Depends. One atomic writer - multiple readers work out to be pretty darn fast if protected by only a memory fence.
I found switching the screen brightness setting from (A) auto to a set level and this fixed what appeared to be a flicker or constant changing of the brightness level. I was assuming it was software related, however my issue might be unrelated to yours.
As someone who founded a startup that navigated the legal boundaries of an over-regulated industry, I may suggest that the founders may find comments that say "not sure if this is legal" a little annoying. I doubt they put their blood sweat and tears into this without going at least as far as they could to determine whether they could legally do this.

Now, "I've done something similar and here is what I ran into" or "I'm an expert and here's what you're up against" - now that's constructive.
I seriously can not tell you how many times someone in Virginia went to thecityswig.com and then was like "awesome, but did you know ABC in Virginia has strict laws?" - No, I spent a year building this and it never occurred to me.

So maybe I'm just projecting, but I would find those comments annoying.
Can't enter minus sign in Google Docs spreadsheet
World Newspapers, Magazines, and News Sites in English
Amdhal "The speedup of a program using multiple processors in parallel computing is limited by the time needed for the sequential fraction of the program" was talking about single programs which at that time were generally batch processing applications. Just like today, developers tended to start with single-threaded code and then looked for ways to parallelize it.

When he says "speedup...is limited", he means that in the mathematical sense. I.e., if you had infinite processors the program would not take zero time to complete.

Adding cores is still great when you have many threads and processes competing for CPU time. If your workload is blocking on network or disk, it means you have enough cores. Anyone who would expect additional cores to significantly speed up a single, single-threaded, application is simply in error.

If this is a myth, I don't know anyone who believes it.
An Insider's View Of Silicon Alley's Talent Feeding Frenzy
I think the issue that will always plague this is that firstly, when stuff is filtered through an app (ie not from the "source") there's a paranoia that something is being somehow missed.

Secondly, I like sifting through different sites (if they're built nicely), it adds variety - browsing is part of the experience of consuming content.

Also, there's an organisational overhead for setting up feeds. If you can just click on sites and explore, it's a different experience to adding feeds and refreshing. Consider it the comparison to doing your food shopping with a vague idea of what you want, and meticulously planning your groceries on-line and having it delivered. The latter is far more efficient, but the former is kinda fun in its own way and more entropic (which people enjoy in their lives).

I might be completely wrong, of course.
Doctors see sick people more than healthy people. Divorce lawyers get more business than the lawyers for happily-married couples (I guess they can help them with a will.)

We programmers live on the borderline between respected professional and prole grunt. Is it Doctor/Lawyer/Software Engineer; or Mechanic/Technician/Software Engineer?
Based on US GAAP, whenever there is an "indication of impairment", ZNGA is required to present a model to the auditors justifying any goodwill and some intangible assets attributed to things like OMGPOP. If Draw Something suffers a user drawdown of 50% or 66% (not sure what the current daily users are) since the acquisition, they would be hard-pressed to justify to their auditors the value of the assets are anywhere near what they have on the books. They might have some wiggle room, but not nearly as much as people on this thread appear to believe.
In the printed warranty that came in the box of my Nexus it directs you to support.asus.com

They offer a 12 month warranty.
Anyone who would expect additional cores to significantly speed up a single, single-threaded, application is simply in error. </ snip> If this is a myth, I don't know anyone who believes it.

9 women can't create an infant in a month?
Our New $10.00 Per Month iPhone Plans
Only built-in action types [1] are allowed, if you keep reading. This includes: "Listen - Song".

Specifically:

The following Built-in Action-Object pairs are available:

Like - Any Object Type
Follow - Profile
Listen - Song
Read - Article
Watch - Video, Movie, TV Show, or TV Episode

IMO a great change for user experience.

1 - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/actions/built...
I am lost.. can't understand how to use it at all.

Very nice graphics but UX is terrible
Please let me know if you have suggestions for the site, thanks.
Ask: Has anyone tried out Facebook Credit's APi for recurring payment?
If so how was the experience? How long did it take to implement the recurring payment module?
And their homepage is shockingly similar to Amazon's:
http://cl.ly/image/2Z0w3q0G1g0y
If you've been following the story you would know this clip is a complete farce. When pressed for any real information he falls back on the tried and true "I don't recall".

It's still up for debate whether he has been lying this entire time and knew about the entire thing.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...